The Simple Past Tense

I went swimming yesterday.

Affirmative:Affirmative:The past tense of regular verbs is formed by adding –ED–ED to the base form of the verb: I worked with my computer last week

PAST SIMPLE TENSE: REGULAR VERBS

EDED Spelling rules:1. We normally add ED to the verb: work-worked2. If the verb ends in E, we only add D: live-lived3. If the verb endes in consonant-vowel-consonant,

we double the last consonant: stop-stopped4. If the verb ends in consonant-Y, we omit Y and

add IED: study-studied

PAST SIMPLE TENSE: REGULAR VERBS

Simple Past Tense: Irregular verbs

AffirmativeAffirmative: Irregular past verb forms must be learned because they don’t follow

any rule: Go went Come came Buy bought Drink drank Eat ate Find found See saw

I went to Paris last July

Negative:Negative:Use did not or didn’t + a base form verb to make the past simple tense negative.

I didn’t play basketball yesterday.

PAST SIMPLE TENSE: REGULAR and IRREGULAR VERBS

Interrogative:Interrogative:

Use did + subject + a base form verb to make the past simple interrogative.

Did you watch a film on TV last night?

PAST SIMPLE TENSE: REGULAR and IRREGULAR VERBS

Short answers:Short answers:

Yes, I did – No I didn’t

Yes, she did – No, she didn’t

1.To talk about actions that happened at a specific time in the past. You state when it happened using a time adverb (yesterday, last month):

Last year I learned French.

2. It can be used to describe events that happened over a period of time in the past but not now:

I lived in England for three years.

3. It is also used to talk about habitual or repeated actions that took place in the past:

When I was a child we always played hockey at school.

The Simple Past Tense: USES

The Simple Past Tense

Time expressions:Time expressions:Yesterday, last month, last year, last time, … ago, in ...

My friends travelled to Africa two years ago